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slightly backwards. The scutellum is smooth, impunctate 

 or provided with a few very fine punctures; it has a 

 triangular shape with convex sides. 



The elytra are strongly punctured, the punctures large 

 but not deep ; provided with three costae, the first slightly 

 broader than the second and third, the narrow interspace 

 outside from the third provided with a row of punctures. 



The propygidium and pygidiura rugosely punctured, the 

 latter in several of the specimens before me with a raised 

 smooth line along the middle. The sides of the metasternum 

 and of the abdomen are rather remotely punctured. 



The anterior tibiae are tridentate, the upper tooth is 

 small, often very obscure. 



Hah, East India: Bengal, Chota Nagpore and Mysore. 

 — (Leyden Museum and Mr. Rene Oberthür's collection). 



Apogonia impressa, n. sp. 



A pubescent species which is easily recognizable by the 

 conformation of the scutellum this being broadly and 

 deeply impressed at some distance from the base. 



Length 10 '/o mm. — Broadly ovate, the thorax con- 

 spicuously narrower than the elytra ; dark brown with a 

 faint greenish and purplish hue, the head and thorax 

 blackish, the antennae and palpi pale ferruginous. Covered 

 with a fine glittering pale ochreous pubescence which is 

 denser set on the elytra than on the head, thorax and 

 underside. 



The head proportionately small, the face confluently 

 punctured, the punctures forming longitudinal striae sepa- 

 rated from the clypeus by a narrow streak which bears 

 large isolated punctures; the clypeus long, coarsely punct- 

 ured, subtruncate (not emarginate) in front, the margin 

 reflexed. 



The prothorax conspicuously narrower than the elytra, 

 the sides (when viewed laterally) strongly rounded just 

 behind the middle; the anterior angles acute, almost im- 



Notes from, tlie Leyden JVLuseum , Vol. XX.. 



